Craig’s Musings

I picked up issue 15 of Fast Company while enjoying a weekend getaway in Pacific Grove. Actually it rained most of that weekend, but there was a nice mom-and-pop bookstore nearby, and our room had a great fireplace and the B&B served afternoon wine and cheese–all great for a good read. Soon thereafter I took a subscription to the magazine and have found it to contain valuable articles over the years.

Fast Company does me a great service with their complete, searchable content archive, and the following FC articles still hold my interest:

• FC15: Keep It Simple
• FC16: Growing Smart (Unit of One column) - Jeffrey Miller’s advice concerning professional pace
• FC19: How To Get Them To Show You the Money
• FC19: The Company of the Future
• FC21: Make Change, Minimize Distractions (What’s Your Problem? column) - Involvement, not containment, is the way to minimize disruption [from change].
• FC22: Software Doesn’t Have To Crash - Alan Cooper has written several excellent books on software usability and UI design.
• FC23: The Agenda - Grassroots Leadership
• FC24: All the Right Moves
• FC24: Learning for a Change
• FC24: How To Be a Real Leader
• FC25: A Leader’s Journey
• FC26: The Art of Smart (Unit of One column)
• FC27: Operation - Leadership
• FC27: ideas.com - content and context management
• FC31: Idea Summit
• FC31: Mind Games
• FC32: Do You Have the Will To Lead?
• FC35: Why Can’t We Get Anything Done?
• FC37: Unleash Your Ideavirus (part 2)
• FC39: Your Job Is Change
• FC40: What Makes Teams Work? (Unit of One column)
• FC41: Natural Leader (part 2)
• FC46: Change Agent column - advice on criticism that’s fair and not stifling
• FC47: Grassroots Leadership: You Can’t Lead Without Making Sacrifices
• FC51: Good to Great - given EMC’s recent acquisition of Documentum, will 2004 mark Documentum’s transition to greatness? (As an employee and shareholder, I certainly hope so and aim to make it so!)
• FC53: Attention, Class!!! 16 Ways to Be a Smarter Teacher

There are more issues to winnow since the last article listed above to the present (FC78), but there’s already lots of good content to review and keep on the ready in my mind.